delays the decision on whether to impose an i.m.f. . the nation's bank account. russia slams the proposal as unfair and dangerous but some experts. may have to rethink its help for europe. plus state of denial u.s. military maintains there's no hunger strike. where more than one hundred detainees are reportedly starving themselves in protest of mistreatment. no war or peace but washington and its allies have left behind in iraq as more deadly bombings strike the nation ahead of the ten year anniversary of the u.s. led invasion.

coming to you live from moscow. the parliament inside press has delayed until tuesday a decision on whether to allow and. which will cost its citizens millions of. everybody customer will have that if it goes through the plan to cause panic over the weekend with people emptying a.t.m. machines fearing their life savings could be plundered correspondent reports on the implications the e.u. finance ministers as the and the international monetary fund had agreed upon a ten billion euro bailout for the country on the condition that this a bank tax a bank deposit tax be imposed now this could amount to up to nine point nine percent of those who have more than one hundred thousand euros in the bag and for many people there it's said their entire life savings that they have they feel are now in trouble. the panic that has been stirred over the weekend people trying to

get money out of the cash machines but electronic transfers have been stopped and the machines have been running out of money and people there are calling this essentially unfair unjust and simply robbery their their savings being taken away from them the president of the country however have has been painting this acceptance of the bailout as crucial for the country says that if this back tax this requirement is not passed then the country will might be forced to get out of the euro of the euro zone area and therefore some people feel that the country has really been put in a position where it has no choice but to accept everything that has be handed down by brussels by e.u. leaders by the meetings that they have here as far as the people are concerned again they really see this as as an infringement of what is supposed to be there and this is unprecedented in the sense that this is the first time that a requirement for a bailout is actually actually means dipping into the personal savings of citizens

of this is the first time it has happened officials here say that this is not going to be a precedent that is not going to be a trend to whatever already there is. citizens do whether or not this law and the red line that they thought would never be cross has actually already been crossed and if we look again at what may be the biggest factor in disrupting the very fabric of the european union is this kind of social dissatisfaction this kind of a protest from the people where they are where they are not happy with the kind of decisions that their leaders are making as a directly impacts the very quality of their lives. the off the shocks of the opposition have been felt in countries both inside and outside the eurozone. unfair unprofessional and dangerous with the words that that amir putin used through his spokesman about this tax on deposits in cyprus that would be necessary for that ten billion euro e.u. i.m.f.

loan russian banks russian businessmen and exceptionally rich russian individuals hold a disproportionately huge deposits in cyprus given the country's size the exact number of billions is estimated to be above ten but the exact number could be far higher it's very hard to establish it's partly because of that reason that the e.u. wanted a tax to try and distribute the burden equally and to avoid money laundering there are reports in the greek media that the russian state energy giant gazprom proposed its own bailout to cyprus in return for energy exploration rights around the island but it was turned down because cyprus want to dissolution from within the e.u. all of this does raise questions about the future of russian deposits in cyprus about whether this tax will hurt more investors or the banks that hold their

deposits if those deposits are withdrawn it also raises questions being eurozone given by russia to cyprus which may itself not be extended well global markets analysts patrick young man says that the use proposition to encroach on personal as well as foreign bank deposits deeply in danger is the entire banking system the euro zone and the european union have looked at the altar all cyprus situation and said a huge swathe of deposits here come from people outside the european union and where they've done it entirely cynically or whether they've done it entirely. clear but there certainly looks to me to be a lot of politics behind this move essentially the euro zone the european union have said who can we manage to take a haircut from that are actually not our citizens not our voters or not our beleaguered banks who are largely incompetent that also is a terrible precedent to set because ultimately any banking system is reliant upon

foreign deposits and all foreigners whether they're russian corporates russian oligarchs or whoever they are it matters not one iota because the whole point is that from today on people will be aware that there is a precedent for burning investors who want to hold the euro real well we're also closely following the tensions inside for us on our website r.t. dot com that is where we're asking you what you think will come out of the controversial deposit levy and so far here's how your votes come in here's how they stand right now the majority fifty one percent just over half of these forcing savers to pay for the bank's mistakes will only cause social unrest in the blue the purple there thirty two percent expect a chain reaction of bank runs leading to the collapse of the a year less of the thirteen percent in the l.a. play in the floor year ozone system saying the cash will only offer a short term solution and this hour the minority in the green four percent. think

that the cypriot economy will stabilize that's how you're voting the moment you kind of course change that pie chart visit our web site r.t. dot com. despite mounting media coverage and legal appeals the u.s. military continues to deny a mass hunger strike is underway at guantanamo bay lawyers for more than one hundred detainees say they've been starving themselves for over forty days in protest and the desecration of the koran by prison guards when grilled bayati i got to go on top of my spokesman defended the facilities policy. captain robert duran says get mo is committed to the i quote his safe legal humane and transparent treatment of detainees here earlier claimed only fourteen captives are refusing all food with some of those being force fed to prevent starvation. despite pledging to shut down guantanamo during his first presidential campaign in

two thousand and eight barack obama has now dropped the issue from the top of his agenda but this has drawn little in the us where the mainstream media prefers to keep out of the headlines the war on terror is still marketed as a good enough reason to keep the camp running. recaps the failed attempts to bring guantanamo to an end. the story around the closure of guantanamo bay prison has stuck to president obama ever since he brahmas to shut it down and here are some of the key dates on the way in january two thousand and nine when obama was inaugurated he ordered the facility to be closed within a year and burned to certain into regression methods after the us government admitted torturing some of the detainees but in me the same year the u.s. senate refused to fund the closure until the president provided more detail as to what he would do with the prisoners in mid october appear the situation changed as congress allowed some detainees to be moved to the united states for prosecution but at the end of two thousand and ten congress approved the defense spending bill

which prevented u.s.b. straus for guantanamo detainees and in january two thousand and eleven hopes a bomb would keep his campaign promise dimmed further when he signed the defense of the reason bill which ruled out shutting one's animal be down and prevented the transfer of prisoners from the camp in march obama also signed an executive order resuming military trials for guantanamo detainees a move seen by many as a complete reversal of its previous policy while in december of two thousand and eleven the president feels to veto the national defense bill believing the way for prisoners to be held indefinitely and without charge and extending the ban on moving them from the prison finally in july of last year the pentagon announced its plans to forty million dollars fiberoptic cable from guantanamo bay to the u.s. mainland not exactly a sign of washington is planning to wrap up its operations in the controversial detention center. earlier we spoke to former guantanamo bay guard brandon

a mate who admits he took part in the abuse of detainees the army veteran says the u.s. has only created more terrorists for its actions the facility is a lot better but speak guards have been there over the last few years all the dream inside as far as the internal reaction force team and the way the crown is treated in a stuff like that not much has changed maybe the outside is changed but inside hasn't changed too much on people forget that these people have been cleared for release by not only the obama administration but also by the bush administration and they're going to be into definitely all through whom goes along they don't know when they're going to see their families again or where they're going to go i think the fact that they don't know what's going to happen you know is it makes them gross and this is their only what form of protest they had to go on for three and the fact is the one who were open to cameras on an open guantanamo knew them would be a hero and that was wrong but it was it was illegally and it was a violation of human rights and the fact is it has to be closed the fact is they'll never bring him into a federal court system because a lot of the information they have gotten as mindy to have been have gotten out of

the use of torture so they get it's on a missile a federal court system well we dropped the ball we have a system here and we have the opportunity to show the world that arse still and our way of life actually works when we drop the ball in newnan know we've created more terrorists and enemies around the world than we could ever imagine. now stay with our in-depth coverage of the alleged mass hunger strike at guantanamo bay we've got all the details the mainstream media is missing there's more opinion and analysis of the story on our website altie dot com. still ahead for you this hour europe's last dictator uncensored. i can prove it right here right now that there is no dictatorship in batteries shelling. a speaks exclusively to the president of valerie's who dismisses western criticism saying he's as devoted to democratic values as the next person based on much more after this break.

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three. three. three. the old free blog video for your media project free media dog r t dot com. you're watching out a live from moscow. iraq is about to mark ten years since the u.s. led invasion with thirty deaths from bomb attacks last week in baghdad and ten more on sunday in the south in two thousand and three washington unleashed its shock and awe air strikes aiming to rid the country of suspected weapons of mass destruction and topple saddam hussein a decade later arguments persist over whether anything was achieved he's gone she can investigates. i know. there's no greater cost to more than shatter human lives the u.s.

invasion into iraq resulted in the deaths of almost two hundred thousand iraqis according to various estimates the deadly metals released by bombs and bullets continue to kill. in fallujah more than half of all babies who were conceived after the start of the war were born with birth defects the infant mortality rate there is disturbing. on the u.s. side the war took the lives of four thousand four hundred eighty six soldiers when you talk a country the size of iraq everyone knows someone that was killed. in the states when you're here less than one percent of people participated in the war so at this point most americans have turned that off it's as though it didn't happen ten years of death and destruction and it says though in this country we're done with that we've moved on and it's difficult if not impossible for any veterans and iraqis to move on from ten years of death and destruction the most recent study puts the

total cost of the war at two trillion dollars that the u.s. the authors of the report say the country will continue to pay and over the next four decades that cost could reach six trillion dollars but on top of the human loss and dollars spent there's also been a political price to pay for american credibility and influence went down well runs went up and we're still living with the consequences of this ten years later so law of unintended consequences are you know polar moment ended when we went into baghdad but we didn't know it from the berlin wall to that time we destroyed the earth like a grand colossus and then after that it's all been very different colonel lawrence wilkerson who served as chief of staff to secretary of state colin powell at the time of the invasion says you walk has changed the way the world sees the us people look at what we do they do not. judge us by our rhetoric our rhetoric is high and lofty and we talk about human rights and human dignity and freedom and democracy

and what do we do we mount a war of aggression on iraq kill a couple hundred thousand people and mess it up majorly including the region much of what is happening now is a result of what we did in the right world looks at that and they say this is not something we need in the world this kind of absolutely in a leadership and when this happens in the world of international relations the world stands up and began to balance the head today many of those who cheered for the iraq war on t.v. shows and then their memoirs struggle to justify the decisions they made and the actions they took yes history will hold them responsible and render some sort of indictment but there is no accountability for people who make grievous errors in high office in the united states where the united states of amnesia is gore but also. the tendency to forget and to move on could prove dangerous with new war talk brewing in washington with many of the same people who pushed for the iraq war

answer now pushing to drag american to another conflict in the middle east and number of insiders from the bush administration have come out and said the desire to topple directly government trumped all other considerations at the time of the invasion there was no credible intelligence that saddam had weapons of mass destruction or ties with al qaida and yet the administration wanted to invade at all costs what we see from these policy makers today are just different shades of denial in washington i'm kind of. now news junkies can always head to our website for lots more stories. around launching a new domestically built missile destroyer to god interests in the caspian sea marking its first heavyweight presence in the oil rich region. venezuela's acting president says the cia on the pentagon want to kill his upcoming election rival and pin the blame on him much. more on our team dot com. looking for its place in the sun and wanting to live as

a normal civilized european state now the goals president alexander lukashenko has for the future of belarus as he told r.t. in an exclusive interview dubbed as europe's last act a to look at freely admits he won't give up power lightly or deny speculation his youngest son would succeed him as president the president of the former soviet republic has been repeatedly criticized by western states for violating human rights in oppressing the opposition has hit back saying his democracy is just as good as that found in europe or the us. i can prove it right here right now that there is no dictatorship in belarus shall i very simply in just a few words this is the argument i used to convince my western partners in order to be a dictator like starlin one has to have the resources resources of paramount you need to understand that i have any nuclear weapons exactly i do not do i have as much oil as hugo chavez did in venezuela no do i have as much natural gas as russia

number two and so on and so forth do i have so many people as china does one point five billion people we know that works in order to be a dictator in dictate one's will one has to have the resources economic social military relation and so on we have none and i am being objective about it i am telling you that we have no claims of global importance and don't see ourselves solving major global problems we don't have the resources to do so what we want to do is find our place in the sun and live as an average civilized european state that's all i want so i ask for dictatorship i say to them you're very lucky to meet europe's last dictator alive in person we remember it is that something you probably won't see again. the new

israeli government will be sworn in later following weeks of horsetrading prime minister benjamin netanyahu his likud alliance teamed up with three other parties to form a cabinet netanyahu was forced to turn his back on the traditional ultra orthodox allies and they now find themselves in opposition for the first time in a decade although there is already some speculation of the coalition is a delicate best one group with a vested interest in the direction of the new government or the inhabitants of a rural bedouin village whose homes have been bulldozed forty seven times by the or thorazine pulis leah looks at that david and goliath style struggle. there's not much here but what there is within hours is destroyed. part of an israeli plan to win the negev desert of its bed when residents. head if they've been demolished at the edge of thousand times i will rebuild a lot of well as long as i'm alive i will keep struggling i will not give up well

living in fear over time whenever somebody calls us and says they're bulldozers and i mean us straight they take all our stuff outside the target and take it to the cemetery and now they're threatening to demolish the cemetery. the iraqi village has become the focal point of tel aviv's plans it started with the first demolition more than three years ago and since then most families have relocated to neighboring towns but woman we're not afraid we're waiting for them to come again. a steadfast few who live near the threat and symmetry wait to rebuild their homes after the bulldozers leave there is a lighter side to the story residents here have asked the guinness book of world records to enter them as the village that has been demolished the most times in history forty seven and counting. nearly half of the big one population of the negative around ninety thousand people live in forty five villages and recognized

by the israeli government they don't appear on any map and have no official signs marking their existence when they're not being torn down they're being torn apart through the government's refusal to provide sewage systems roads electricity water schools or hospitals but tell of if says it's ready to change that if the bedouins move to recognize villages it promises to provide them with basic services and compensation. they are living on lines that belong to the state israel is a country of law and institutions when you claim land belongs to you should be able to prove a. legal papers the better ones don't have these papers so it's very hard to accept the claimants. battle shake saya all true he disagrees he says his ancestors of buried in the symmetry we grieve state back at least a hundred years. but we have papers from the in one thousand and five we paid taxes for this land from the year one thousand twenty one until nine hundred forty seven

we have papers from the british in nineteen twenty nine and we even have papers from the year of nine hundred seventy three signed by israel itself all these papers prove that the land belongs to us. these really government is expected soon to pass a bill that will see more than twenty and recognised between villages destroyed and some fifty thousand bedouins displaced about two thirds of the land is threatened with confiscation the government is trying to organize their vigilance against their will and the bedouins prefer to live in agricultural villages to preserve their all more a way of living and to brazil of their own culture it's only a matter of time before the village gets demolished for the forty eighth time and the people living here hope more than just the guinness book of world records will take note policy r t r keep village in the negev desert for the coalition deal to form israel's new cabinet was hammered out just days before the upcoming visit of u.s.

president barack obama many are expecting some hard talk on the palestinian issue however peter lavelle's guests argue whether it will even be on the agenda the full show is coming up fifteen hundred g.m.t. . the purpose of the visit simply to visit to check that box and to be able to demonstrate that he's been to israel and to get out of the way at the beginning of this term and it doesn't certainly years as you yourself mentioned the so-called peace process is not on the agenda he's not bringing any new initiative with so there's no need to revive the so-called pay. process it's never been a peace process it's been an ocean process and right now there are no restraints no constraints no inhibitions israel's pursuit of its continued of the occupied post and territories. of next and

i'll say it's our exclusive interview with the president of better or worse alexander lukashenko. there was a time in america when buses were officially segregated and today if they tried to resegregate the wall next to it there would be outrage throughout the usa every t.v. channel and newspaper so segregation in america was wrong but now america funding segregation elsewhere via foreign aid seems to be a ok and jim dandy arab language leaflets have been spread around west bank in palestinian areas asking residents to start using special bus lines place to put palestinians on separate bus lines were first announced in november of two thousand and twelve after some complaints by

jewish settlers of trouble on the buses between passengers of different ethnicities in regards to the special bus lines it's really human rights groups but selim said the attempt at is appalling and the current arguments about security needs an overcrowding must not be allowed to camouflage blatant racism you know when south africa had apartheid they were slammed with sanctions including from the us but if you're israel go ahead and segregate all the buses you like and you'll still be the us is top recipient of foreign aid at three point one billion dollars a year if there's one thing i don't. like it's hypocrisy like this but that's just my opinion.

i think somebody very special on by sure still with with me to go hello and thank you very much for being with r.t. you've come to st petersburg to discuss further integration of russia and belarus with president putin well you know earlier there was talk of single currency single flac single problem but that now less than twenty years on it's kind of obvious that it's not really going to happen why have these large scale plans have fallen through what's tearing our countries apart with russia and thorn was looser rule shrimp around mosul is this group you're absolutely right except for one thing when you say that it will never happen. so you remember. historically we came up with a treaty that saw the creation of the union state of belarus and russia now if you actually look it up you'll see that it lays down a clear plan of action to build this union state listing all the key elements needed like the single currency and common institutions although it's a very detailed blueprint we were also supposed to draft

a new constitution and hold a referendum on it however we never did this last bit there was no constitution or a referendum overall we have made significant headway over the past years although we have not been able to deliver on what was spelt out in the treaty we have come to realize that perhaps we are not ready for yet that is not the time or but there is still one great upside our joint efforts towards a union state led to the creation of a new organization the customs union you know which in its turn both about a common economic space and we are now working to transform it into the eurasian economic union. would you agree with those analysts who say that it's an attempt to restore a mini version of the soviet union. you can of course compare it to the soviet union or the european union or any other union regardless of which one exactly you pick as a reference point we can support the trend or see the world is seeing a global integration process with new unions emerging across the planet take for

example or merkel in latin america i just returned from venezuela there are many more examples of this trend new organizations emerge to survive in this competitive environment why shouldn't we use the positive experience of the soviet union in fostering our relationship if a little beyond russia you were very close to chavis he was a man who united around himself leaders who challenge the west to western corporations western capital now that he's gone what is to future of this. i would not say that chavez united us simply because it's so difficult to do i first realized that when we became part of the nonaligned movement there are so many forces including the united states trying to win these nonaligned countries over to their side to drive a wedge into the movement here.